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I bid. — Respondens Satan, ait: Circuivi terram, et perambulavi eam. 7. Satanae circuitus, ejus anxietatis argumentum. — Solet per gyrum circuitus, laboris anxietas de- signari. Satan ergo laborans terram circuivit, quia quietus in coeli culmine stare contempsit. Cumque se non volasse, sed perambulasse insinuat, quanto pec- cati pondere in imis prematur, demonstrat. Peram- bulans ergo terram circuivit; quia ab illo spiritalis potentiae volatu corruens, malitiae suae pressas gra- vedine, foras ad gyrum laboris venit. Hinc est enim quod et de ejus membris per Psalmistam dicitur; In circuitu impii ambulant ( Psal. xi, 9); quia dum inte- riora non appetunt, in exteriorum labore fatigantur.
同上。——撒但回答說：我從地上走來走去，往返而行。7. 撒但的巡遊，正是他焦躁的憑證。——繞圈巡遊往往用以表明勞苦的焦躁。所以撒但在勞苦中繞行遍地，因他不屑安靜站在天的高處。當他暗示自己並非飛翔、而是行走遍地時，便顯出他被何等重的罪壓向深處。因此他行走遍地繞行；因為他從那屬靈能力的飛翔中墜落，被自己惡毒的沉重所壓，便出到勞苦的圈子裡。故此，論到他的肢體，也藉詩人說：惡人四圍遊行（詩十一9）；因為他們既不追求內在之事，就在外在之事的勞苦中疲乏。
Same place. — Satan answering said: I have gone round the earth, and walked through it. 7. Satan's going about, the proof of his anxiety. — By going round in a circuit the anxiety of toil is wont to be signified. Satan, therefore, in his toil went round the earth, because he scorned to stand quiet at the summit of heaven. And when he implies that he did not fly, but walked through it, he shows by how great a weight of sin he is pressed down into the depths. Walking, therefore, he went round the earth; because falling from that flight of spiritual power, pressed by the heaviness of his own malice, he came forth to the circuit of toil. Hence it is that of his members too it is said through the Psalmist: The wicked walk round about (Ps. xi. [xii.] 9); because while they do not seek the inner things, they are wearied in the labour of outer things.